New Member. 1937 TA 1646
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:44 am
New member.
My father restored his 1937 MG TA (TA 1646) in 1983.
The TA was passed onto me on his passing & it has sat in a garage on blocks since 1992.
I’ve started a “refresh” & this is ongoing.
My father removed & completely dismantled the MPJG engine & put the bits in half a dozen boxes.
They have accompanied me on 2 house moves & spent the last 25 years on the floor of a loft in a barn.
I’ve never even opened some of the boxes to examine the contents !
The cardboard boxes are intact & dry so I assume the contents are ok but probably have some surface rust.
The MPJG has a poor reputation so I don’t consider it worth rebuilding.
A rebuilt “Morris 10” engine was fitted in its place.
This engine looks to be a XPJM/U which were installed in thousands of Morris 10/4 Utility cars, vans & items such as water pumps during WW2.
The casting numbers back this up.
As an MGTA was an old car in the early 1980’s, my father obviously fitted a freshly rebuilt old engine of comparable vintage to keep the TA running.
I found the brass engine disk under some gunge on the LHS of the engine.
It reads XPJMU & 33301.
The XPJM/U looks to be 1140 cc plus a 0.020” rebore as outlined on a plate on the lower RHS of the block..
It has circa 600 miles from the rebuild so is fresh apart from nearly 30 years of being parked on blocks.
I got the engine running the other day & it runs sweetly.
However after about 3 minutes, "Lucas smoke" appeared from behind the dash due to mice having feasted on the wiring.
So a rewire is another job added to the list.
I'm collecting ancillaries such as inlet & exhaust manifolds etc. so that it will look like a XPAG from 10 feet away.
It will be a while before TA 1646 is roadworthy again but the process has started.
My father restored his 1937 MG TA (TA 1646) in 1983.
The TA was passed onto me on his passing & it has sat in a garage on blocks since 1992.
I’ve started a “refresh” & this is ongoing.
My father removed & completely dismantled the MPJG engine & put the bits in half a dozen boxes.
They have accompanied me on 2 house moves & spent the last 25 years on the floor of a loft in a barn.
I’ve never even opened some of the boxes to examine the contents !
The cardboard boxes are intact & dry so I assume the contents are ok but probably have some surface rust.
The MPJG has a poor reputation so I don’t consider it worth rebuilding.
A rebuilt “Morris 10” engine was fitted in its place.
This engine looks to be a XPJM/U which were installed in thousands of Morris 10/4 Utility cars, vans & items such as water pumps during WW2.
The casting numbers back this up.
As an MGTA was an old car in the early 1980’s, my father obviously fitted a freshly rebuilt old engine of comparable vintage to keep the TA running.
I found the brass engine disk under some gunge on the LHS of the engine.
It reads XPJMU & 33301.
The XPJM/U looks to be 1140 cc plus a 0.020” rebore as outlined on a plate on the lower RHS of the block..
It has circa 600 miles from the rebuild so is fresh apart from nearly 30 years of being parked on blocks.
I got the engine running the other day & it runs sweetly.
However after about 3 minutes, "Lucas smoke" appeared from behind the dash due to mice having feasted on the wiring.
So a rewire is another job added to the list.
I'm collecting ancillaries such as inlet & exhaust manifolds etc. so that it will look like a XPAG from 10 feet away.
It will be a while before TA 1646 is roadworthy again but the process has started.